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1987 F1 Austrian GP-FP1 - Stefan Johansson hit a deer (slideshow) + driver interview
· 28.06.2024 · 20:00:00 ··· Freitag ⭐ 5 🎬 83
📺 Jean-Michel Boileau
(from: https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/single-seaters/f1/johanssons-deer-encounter?v=3e8d115eb4b3 )
Stefan Johansson recalls a memorable Austrian Grand Prix.
There was a pastoral feel to the old Österreichring. Nestled in the foothills of the Styrian Alps, its run-offs were lush meadows, its spectator banks speckled with wild flowers. One half-expected Bambi to gambol across the track…
“It was very small, thank God!” says Stefan Johansson, the disbelief and relief still in his voice 30 years after the fact. “Even so, another couple of feet to the left. No, less.
“I had no time to react. None. The signal from my brain to brake didn’t even reach my foot it happened that quickly. I was doing 170mph over a brow and the deer’s just sat in the middle of the road.”
It was during Friday’s first practice session for the 1987 Austrian Grand Prix that Sweden’s ‘Little Leif’ met the local fauna on the approach to Rindtkurve.
“It tore off the left-front suspension – there were four gaping holes where the pick-up points had been – and that corner carried back and sliced off the sidepod and rear suspension. The whole left side was pretty much gone.
“It was morning and the grass was moist. In those conditions you accelerate when you leave the track. But there was quite a long run-off and so I had plenty of time to think about it. I prefer accidents when you spin and – boof! – you’re in the wall.”
Though his McLaren MP4/3 was wrecked and he’d broken a rib, Johansson knew that he was lucky to be alive. The poor deer was not so fortunate.
Johansson: “Apparently it had been walking around for a while. So it was a mystery why the session hadn’t been stopped.”
Team boss Ron Dennis was furious, and the pilfering of salvageable parts from the wreckage further soured his mood.
As he had after his Bambi carambolage – he was fifth-fastest in Saturday’s wet session – he exhibited the spirit that epitomised his career: “That’s just what you do: get back in it and get back on it. If you start thinking about it, doubting, it’s probably time to stop.”
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